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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15694 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: high |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | partage |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1906 and 1908 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 192 mm | 47 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper as well as the right part are broken off in undetermined extent. One larger hole. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Upper part and all line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire preserved sheet, with a small but inequal left margin, and without a lower margin. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+17 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 40 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 180 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+40 x x+180 | 0 |
Modern Title | letter concerning delivery of several items |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter concerning the delivery of several items, among them three jars of wine(?). The condition is too bad to receive detailed information on the context. It is not clear if the scribe was the sender of the letter himself. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
220 | man | [///], son of Psenchonsis | [///] sꜢ PꜢ-šr-Ḫnsw | (not identified) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period | 02 | Phamenoth | 30 | -664 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100367 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46535 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100367 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15694), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |